Last night, a first version of a law created by two American senators appeared on the Internet, with the role of forcing IT companies to create access ports in their operating systems for products.
Called The Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, the law states that no person or entity is above the law, but also that large IT companies or telecom operators must protect the safety of citizens through their own security measures and systems that provide access to data as needed.
The two senators also included in the law a paragraph that would prevent any government agency from dictating how an operating system must be developed in order to be able to extract information, but the main object of this law is based on exactly this idea.
Moreover, any kind of data that is encrypted in transit or in users' products must be able to be decrypted by the company that created the respective software or product, so each company must have keys for data decryption.
To uphold both the rule of law and protect the interests and security of the United States, all persons receiving an authorized judicial order for information or data must provide, in a timely manner, responsive, intelligible information or data, or appropriate technical assistance to obtain such information.
Of course, cyber security experts criticized this first version of the law and said that it is absurd and extremely dangerous, but Americans place a high value on national security and are willing to violate the constitution to create systems that will keep them in safety.
The absurdity of this bill is beyond words. Due to the technical ineptitude of its authors, combined with a hunger for unconstitutional governmental powers, the end result is a very dangerous document that will weaken the security of America's technological infrastructure. This will affect everything from the iPhone you hold in your pocket to how data is transmitted over the Internet, allowing the government to effectively break all electronic commerce and Internet security. This is bad legislation in every way, and it very subtly allows for unconstitutional government control of private industry.
Although this law was written in this format, it will not reach the plenary session of Congress until the presidential elections in the fall, and Barack Obama has announced that he will not support it, so it remains to be seen if there will be enough politicians to support it. give a positive vote when it comes to voting.
